hitman2158

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  1. Hi guys, I have to replace the parity disk (4TB Toshiba MD04-ACA400) of my backup system, smart errors. Ordered a recertified 6TB HGST Ultrastar He⁶ Bulk HUS726060ALA640-FR SATA III. Usual price (not recertified) here in Germany is about 310€, recertified is 144€. Will share my expirience when I pick it up from post office tomorrow. Will do a preclear on my main system because of a docking station inside the case. If disk passes the preclear, okay thumbs up. If not, back to dealer.
  2. What about something like this, HPE ProLiant MicroServer or Dell PowerEdge? This is ready to run out of the box. Get it new or used with or without disks. Or DIY. Watchout for small case, mainboard, CPU and RAM. Depends on your requirements and your money.
  3. jonathanm and electron286 are completely right. If this would be a private project for your own, go on, open your wallet really wide for the hardware and spent a lot of time (and this will be a huge amount of time) building and creating all the stuff. But don´t do anything like that for a customer. It will be a mess. One or both of you will be very unlucky and disappointed. The whole stuff will work for a while, until an update or any other reason. Here are some points which might be useful: 1) My ripped (using MakeMKV) Blu-Rays in 2k (so 1080 or FHD) have a size of 20-50 GB, no compression with Handbrake or something like that. I like to have audio complete, not only german. I don´t know the size of ripped Blu-Rays in 4k. 2) As a rule of thumb, transcoding 2k-videos Plex needs 2000 points in Passmark. The CPU you mentioned reaches 11367 points, so maximum capable of 5 2k-streams concurrently. Have a look on this: https://support.plex.tv/articles/201774043-what-kind-of-cpu-do-i-need-for-my-server/ So the E-5 2620 v4 is not even strong enough for one 4k-stream in SDR, not to mention in HDR (17000 points). If you want to achieve this, think about a CPU starting at 1000$ and more. 3) Forget transcoding. Just buy useful stuff which is ready to work together with Plex. The Nvidia Shield TV works perfect, I bought mine in 2015 and I´m still satisfied. So you don´t have to mess around with Netflix, Prime Video, etc. Or try a Raspberry Pi with Plex Media Player for embedded platforms, works also very good. 4) To rip such a huge amount of disks try to build your own ripstation with vortexbox, have a look here: https://www.vortexbox.org/ You don´t need powerful hardware, a single core CPU around 1 GHz, 2-4 GB RAM and 30 GB for OS is enough. Maybe you have something like this laying around, unused and forgotten in your home. Use Google for searching "Ripping from multiple drives simultaneously vortexbox". It works really flawless. Rips DVD´s as well as Blu-Rays and CD´s. But there is manually work waiting for you, give the rips the right name before you put them in the media library of Plex. Plex needs correct naming of media files to find and match them, for example "Batman Begins (2005).mkv". Best wishes in advance for your project.
  4. Just to make it clear. 1) You are on the trial with 17 days left? 2) You wanna know if you can switch from trial to basic, plus or pro without loss of any data (no matter what)? Answer=Yes, it´s possible. Just buy the license you need and follow instructions. That´s it. You won't regret it.
  5. Hi there, I´m using my Shield TV since 2015 (the small one with 16GB flash including remote and controller), so around 3,5 years. First upgrade 1.1 in 2015 was level up to Android 5.1, last upgrade 7.2 in December 2018 included the latest monthly Android security patch (I think November or December 2018, not sure). It is now on Android 8.1 OREO. So the update/upgrade work from Nvidia is really good. In my opinion the box is still the best one in the market. Here´s a review: https://www.androidcentral.com/nvidia-shield-tv-still-worth-buying Here´s the support from Nvidia: https://shield.nvidia.com/support/nvidia-android-tv/release-notes/1 If anyone need a recommendation, the Shield TV is worth it. But I don´t have any expirience with other boxes like Xiaomi, Orbsmart, Roku, etc. I haven't regretted buying it
  6. Okay, the only thing I would suggest is this here: https://www.amazon.com/Lian-Li-EX-36B1-Black-Rack/dp/B004K1HD9G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1548763831&sr=8-1&keywords=EX-36B1 I use this one in my server inside 3 5,25" bays. Maybe you can use this one with a little DIY. It is equipped with a fan. Just use an installation kit (something like that https://www.delock.com/produkte/1169_Installation-frame/18026/merkmale.html?setLanguage=en) to attach the cage on the bottom of the case.
  7. What about things like that? https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=hdd+cage&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ahdd+cage
  8. Please make short diagram of your setup. I don´t understand what you mean.
  9. Change from basic view to advanced view, now you have the "Log column" on the right with info when docker was created.
  10. Unfortunately both of my servers won´t get any updates. Media Server: ASUS P8Z77 WS latest BIOS installed, Version 3505 from 2013/04/01 Backup Server: ASUS A88XM-A latest BIOS installed, Version 3001 from 2016/04/08
  11. See my sig. I have 2 unRAID servers. So 2 licenses. Yes, I spend money for it. Yes, it is absolutely worth it. The other members pointed it out. You´re going to buy 8 or 10 TB drives, but don´t have the money for 1 license? That doesn´t really make sense. But there are also other solutions free of charge. Openmediavault, see https://www.openmediavault.org/ There´s a plugin for SnapRAID inside OMV, see https://www.snapraid.it/ You don´t have to use NAS4FREE or FREENAS or OPENMEDIAVAULT. Just download any Linux server distro of your choice, see https://distrowatch.com/ If you´ve choosen the right one for you install and begin to configure your system free of charge. Meanwhile we in this forum can drink beer and have tons of snacks, BBQ and fun with our wifes. Oh, and good luck when updating or upgrading your free of charge system to the next version. On unRAID there´s an easy way if something goes wrong, done by a community plugin Backup & Restore. It´s done in a pitty. And we´re good to go again. So, choose wisely.
  12. Why is this outdated? This stuff is still more than good enough for gaming in 1080 or 1440.
  13. See my sig. My backup system is good enough with 8GB (just backup purpose), media system is quite fine with 32GB (right now just inhouse streaming with plex and a few small dockers).
  14. Primary task of unRAID is to work as a server, giving you the possibility to store and secure (with parity, but you don´t have to use it/I would highly recommend it). Create different shares for your data like movie, music, photo etc. Create different users for their data. Like this: \share\documents_mom_dad give access rights to mom and dad \share\documents_son_daughter give access rights to mom and dad and son and daughter Please have a look on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZDfnUn74N0WeAPvMqTOrtA That´s the youtube channel from spaceinvader one aka gridrunner in this forum. His videos are really awsome and very good explained. I think this will also give you an anser to question #2 What will be be the purpose of the SSD? Maximum is the amount of real/virtual cores. But keep in mind that OS need some CPU and RAM as well as VM´s or Dockers. OC of the system should be possible via BIOS, but be careful. This is not as easy as it looks like. I don´t know, sorry. Not really sure, but should be possible via plugin unassigned disk devices I don´t know, sorry. 7) What kind of USB hubs will be working with UnRaid software? I don´t know, sorry.
  15. I think he has to install a separate sata controller
  16. Post your setup please. Including current situation and future situation after change or add new drives. Parity must be at least same or bigger than biggest data drive. Have a look on my signature. My backup server has 5 identical drives of each 4TB, Toshiba MD04ACA400. My media server has different drives, parity is a WD with 4TB, data drives are a bunch of 2TB, 3TB and 500GB.
  17. If you want to install 3 independent VM´s, you´ll need 3 independent GPU´s. That´s for your purpose. Be sure to choose the right ones which support your programs. And don´t forget to think about also 3 independent NIC´s.
  18. Looks like an IRQ problem. Probably your network adapter shares the IRQ with the 8x slot. I would suggest to try with a Linux Live Distro to find out, if this only happens with Windows or also with Linux. Download Ubuntu or whatever you want. Burn the ISO onto a DVD or use an Image Writer to bring it on a USB stick. Find a distro here: https://distrowatch.com/ Find a writer here: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-tools-make-bootable-usb-iso-file/ Rufus is okay as well as YUMI or UNetbootin Good luck
  19. This shouldn´t happen with SI-PEX40071. I´m using this controller inside my Mediatower with unRAID, see my sig. Usually use the standard AHCI-driver from Windows. Here´s installation procedure: Navigate to Device Manager. In the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers sections, find "Standard SATA AHCI Controller" ====================================================================================================== If card is device is not recognized in Device Manager: Remove the card and seat it into an available PCIe v2.0 slot of any size larger than x2 (x2/x4/x8/x16) ====================================================================================================== Right-click and Update Driver Software. Select: Browse my computer for driver software. Select: Let me pick from list of device drivers on my computer. Check in: Show compatible hardware. Click Standard SATA AHCI Controller Click Have Disk button Click Browse, navigate to Driver Windows files: 92XX > Windows OS > Bit Version (i386 = 32bit;amd64 = 64bit) > mvs91xx.inf ; click next Window will prompt that the driver has no digital signature, Select: 'Install these drivers anyway' Drivers should be installed. Have a look on http://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=160 to find downloads for the controller. Same thing with Ableconn PEX10-SAT 10 Port SATA 6G PCI Express Compatibility: No driver installation is required. The AHCI drivers are natively built-in on Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, 2008, 2012, Linux, Mac 10.x and later. Your MoBo is a real Oldie, maybe there´s an inompatiblitiy MoBo and these tye of controllers. I would suggest to contact Gigabyte-Support. Or try a different OS like unRAID or a Linux Live Distro like Ubuntu or something like that.
  20. To all the updaters and beerdrinkers in the whole wide world: I hope your choice is wise, real german "Dunkles Hefeweizen". Will update my servers today after work with a cold "Dunkles Hefeweizen" from Gutmann. This is a traditional family brewery (located inside an old castle) in Bavaria since 1855. So if you ever come to Bavaria, go and visit the brewery for a guided tour. I don´t work for them, but I like their stuff. 😁😁😁
  21. Home of my Gaming Rig is Define R5, looks very good, is very quiet and has an outstanding quality. I didn´t suggest the R5 or R6 because of limited space for 3,5" drives.
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